... to the Royal Mail, and their promises of investigation, produce no results. In three years my car has been broken into three times, and once, when it was tampered with, I narrowly avoided a serious accident while driving with my children. The last time the car was broken into was on August 4, 1994. Phoney BT bills and phoney BT engineers In the years when we had a British Telecom telephone our quarterly bills grew until they reached a size a multinational company would be hard pushed to match. Twice we were sent quarterly bills for £5 ,000- and this when my wife and I were always out during working hours and our children were ...

... the focus may be shifting towards the police. It is known that at Hungerford, the Thames Valley force made the approach to British Telecom. According to J B Hopkins (6 ): 'In some circumstances, the need for control of telephone traffc can first become apparent to those agencies who are 'managing' any peacetime emergency. Consultation with BT could result in actions, one of which might be the implementation of the Preference facility, as indeed happened at Hungerford' (emphases added) Apparently BT is able to decide for itself, so far as peacetime implementation is concerned, what action to take. It seems anomalous that a private company is able to overrule, perhaps on ...

... data here beneath the rhetoric and theories. There is a Trilateral site at http://trilateral.org/annmtgs/trialog/triglist.htm Meet the new boss... same as the old boss One of Lobster's regular contributors of recent years had been having terrible trouble, first with his answering machine and then with his phone. He rang BT and a friendly BT engineer, after doing a recce of his line, told him he was being tapped. For doing what? Writing for Lobster? Jeeeeezzz.... Consider the case of the writer Robert Henderson. A right-winger, Henderson wrote an article for the cricket magazine Wisden Cricket Monthly, suggesting that maybe the English ...

... A member of The Israel Center for Social& Economic Progress (ICSEP) run by Daniel Doran (former Israeli intelligence and special consultant to the US Embassy in Tel Aviv). The US ICSEP board includes Irving Kristol, while the UK ICSEP has Stanley Kalms (Conservative Party Treasurer), Lord Harris (IEA), Lord Young (BT, C and W, BAe) and Gerald Ronson, the convicted fraudster. (23) With the IEA, he and Harris championed free market 'principles'. Seldon has further right-wing connections with the ASI and CPS. The AEI and IEA links go back to at least 1993 when the AEI's Michael Novak gave the IEA's Hayek Memorial ...

... . As I expected, the prosecutions were sustained, via a number of postponements, until the last possible minute, then dropped. It was pure judicial harassment. Just how spurious these charges were can be seen from the fact that one of them was that Armen 'between 25/4 /60 and 14/7 /94 dishonestly induced BT PLC to forgo payment of 3762.18 by deception'. (Letter from the Crown Prosecution Service of Nottingham, 10 January 1995.) In 1960 Armen was 9 years old, had never visited the UK, and British Telecom PLC did not exist! The bug pictured on the front cover was found in Armen's house on 24 February 1995 ...

... after World War I. All three dovetail, more or less; continuity is carried by individuals and themes spanning the period. Patrick Hannon, Harry Brittain and Henry Page-Croft, all Tory MPs during this period, appear before the first World War and were still politically active at the start of the second. Croft, Henry Page, 1st Bt. (1881-1947) Con. MP Christchurch, Jan. 1910-18; Bournemouth,1918-40. Parliamentary Under-Sec., War, 1940-5. A tariff reformer who created the National Party in 1917 and was associated with almost every dissident Conservative organisation thereafter, including the EIA, the Imperial Economic Unity Group, the IDL and the anti-appeasement lobby. ...

... documents were passed, the Black Dog story had all but been verified. However, X being a thoroughly belt and braces sort of person wanted some additional documentation before he would commit himself to go public with the story. A meeting was arranged. At about 2.30 a.m. London time X from Washington called and left a message on my BT answer-phone (I was on the internet at the time and so the phone was engaged). A tone of jubilation was in his voice as he recited his message: David (pause) Bingo! (pause) I got it! The very next day began what I can only describe as disengagement. Very shortly afterwards my calls ...

... and a half times more likely to have a temporal brain tumour on the side of the head where they held their phone...' Which is bad enough. But at the foot of piece the Telegraph were good enough to list related stories. 1 May 1997: Scientists warn of mobile phone link with cancer 13 December 1998: BT backs study into mobile phone cancer link 24 May 1999: New studies link brain tumours to mobile phones 20 December 2000: Mobile phones cleared of link to brain tumours 8 February 2001: Mobile phone use carries no cancer risk, says study 29 June 2001: Children ignoring mobile phone dangers 13 July 2001: Brain tissue alert over new ...

... a similar business in the same area in 1997 he was getting plenty of work from just one small advertisement, for a 'man with a van'. He later became aware that calls were not coming in, and now, with five advertisements in various local directories, two web-sites and three different phone numbers, (two land lines- BT and Cable London- and a mobile) and a buoyant economy Kennedy says he gets virtually no serious enquiries, (during the last month (April-May 2000) he reports only one or two genuine enquiries per day) the majority of calls being what he describes as 'spoof' calls- mainly false enquiries. For example, Kennedy reports ...